I have done my Potty Planting!

Spent all day planting yesterday, boy was I tired last night! Keith my fella had got my dinner nearly ready by the time I got home last night and said lets go for a drink to relax you first (he really wanted a drink if the truth is known) so we walked down to our local bar but with great difficulty on my behalf I just could not straighten up! Now I know what it must feel like to be old and a hunch back!

"To see the images in full size, just double click on a pic and don't forget to use the back arrow to return."



When you look at the above pic it really doesn't look like I've done much but if you look closely, each stick represents the rows I have planted, theres a lot really honestly! Anyway, I have planted loads of early potatoes, Anais, and a main crop Desiree, lots of ordinary onions (sturon), shallots (Jermor) and lots of red onions, I love these, the ground although dug up and manured a week or so ago, was so hard due to no rain for a while I had to really dig it all again - no wonder I felt knackered!

Now all I have to do is wait for them to come up! I have kept a few of each type to plant here in my garden in Josselin so I can actually 'watch' them grow as I find it exciting!

I need to next time I go over, probably next week now, sow my carrots, parsnips and some other stuff, green beans I think might be a possibility but not sure what else as yet.




Whilst waiting for me to finish planting, my friend Karen who has been helping me continued digging ready for sowing next week, she was so proud of her efforts, but I reminded her to look to her right (see pic above) to show her that she has barely started she has all that still to dig up!!!! don't think she will be coming again LOL Sorry Karen only joking!

N.B. I have added a couple of 'Nasturtium' pics (Keithy's favourite) to brighten up the otherwise dull pictures of my planting!

Blue Tit update!

I have managed to take some real pics yesterday of our Blue Tits take a look!

"To see an image in full size, just double click on a pic, don't forget to use the back arrow to return."

ARN'T THEY LOVELY!

Looking forward to seeing the babies later on - only problem is Blue Tits are renowned for throwing their babies out of the nest, which means our cats will get them, or perhaps not as it is a bit of a wilderness below the tree, lets hope!

LEGO! LEGO! LEGO! LEGO! LEGO! LEGO!

"To see the image in full size, just double click on pic and don't forget to use the back arrow to return."

Today I am blogging for my 12 year old son Joshy, he is absolutely Lego mad - he is the top Lego Boy of Brittany!!!! The above pic was taken a few weeks ago and there is even more Lego now! He has lots of Lego City, and is now getting into Star Wars. He has numerous pics so click on this link to see the latest ones on offer, but please don't look too closely at some of them as you will see lots of bits fluff and dirt on the carpet where he won't let me clean his bedroom!! boys hey!!!!!!!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/jillygirlie/JoshySLego?feat=directlink

I'VE GOT TWO BEAUTIFUL TITS!!!

Well well, I've got 2 tits nesting in our garden box on the tree, it's lovely to see! I've put out some of the fur from our cats but they don't seem to be interested - wonder why - I find a lot of Sammy's (our big fat cat) tufts of fluffy hair everywhere, as he is long haired you would have thought they would love it!

I have been trying to get a pic of my tits but to no avail, (ok have you ever tried taking a pic of your tits not easy - they don't seem to want to perform!) so please forgive me for using a pic from a public domain site, I'm sure they look the same (ok perhaps the size varies) as the ones in our tree!

My Lovely Gites for rent and/or for sale!

LA MAISON DES FLEURS!

I thought I would tell you a little bit about my property I rent out Nr. La Gacilly, Department 56, it is a beautiful Longere, it is to die for really! for more details have a look at my website at farmhousegites.com I bought it with my ex 8 years ago, we have modernised and updated to the standard necessary for renting out, and it really is lovely, 'chocolate boxy', unfortunately I need to sell it now (partly due to my ex buggering off back to uk 4 years ago) but due to the economical situation it really is a joke! so am continuing to rent them out this year and of course still have it up for sale! so if you fancy buying it, a real snip at 230,000 Euros just give me a call! As you can see by the pic above it really is beautiful, especially in the summer with all the flowers surrounding the house, hence I call it 'La Maison des Fleurs' (the house of flowers) each gite I have named after a flower, for example the main farmhouse I call 'Le Petunia' the cottage 'La Jonquille' and the Apartment 'La Jacinthe'




The property stands in 4,000m2 of land, (look at the pic above with the beautiful view from behind the Gites), which is where as you may have read in my lusty gardening section, is where I am doing my other veggie patch! I have an orchard there as well with 2 peach trees, 3 plum trees, 2 apple trees, and one humongous old apple and a beautiful quince tree! the quinces are so large I really must do something with them this year! to the front of the house I have a lovely cherry tree also pear, apple, peach, plum and a bay tree!

I also have a 250m2 dry barn! this should host all the right stuff, but to be honest is a complete and utter mess! apart from the wood I have in there, and my sit on tractor, boy do I love my sit on tractor when I cut the grass my mobile goes in one receptacle and a bottle of beer in the other! and get a sun tan the same time!!! so getting back to my mess, I have loads of stuff I have ruthlessly sorted and throwing out ie like my ex's c**p - hey that gives me great pleasure LOL, so have rather a large pile accumulating for the rubbish tip!

I also have (yes theres more) across the road from my Gites, 842m2 of constructible land with planning permission! So come on you lot who would like to buy my house with the added advantage of ready up and running Gites??? Have a look at the following pics to whet your appetite! Don't forget if interested, just contact me at farmhousegites.com

Here is a link for you to view more flowers at my house http://www.flickr.com/photos/jillygirlie/sets/72157614999072695

More pooing and froing (chuckle)

Yesterday was at my house again, we needed a bit more poo for the small garden here so rather then take the car down the track and get bogged down again, we drove up with the car and trailer and parked it outside John's house, walked down his garden to where the horses are and just wheel barrowed a few loads straight into the trailer, fine you might say but the biggest task was getting it into the garden here as we are directly on the road and the only access is through the house but no go as wheelbarrow won't fit through doorways,so we had to take it in turns wheelbarrowing the poo manure via the alleyway at the back in relays, so now I am going to start spreading it today!

Another item we brought over is my plastic greenhouse, so am going to attempt to put that up today, will let you know later if I was successful or not! BFN!!!!!!!!!

Poo collecting!

Well yesterday I was really lucky with the weather, it was gorgeous - unlike today - it is tipping it down! We arrived at my house at Nr La Gacilly where I have my Gites (www.farmhousegites.com), with 2 friends of ours Karen & Rick, they kindly said they would bring their trailor so we could collect lots of horsey poo from a neighbour of mine John up the road! there was also an ulterior motive as they wanted a lot for their veggie garden, well this poo after we had taken off the top layer was near enough pure compost underneath, it was absolutely crawling with worms, loads of them - was like the day of the triffids worms! now I hate worms they give me the creeps, and I was really worried as I was standing on the top of this massive pile whilst shovelling it into the trailor and sinking the same time, that it would get into my 'shorty' boots! Rick is a 'manure' expert and said he had never seen such wonderful poo! he is also a fishing enthusiast as well as is my Keithy, and said as they were wriggling so much they were ideal for fishing - he's going to nurture some out for his next fishing trip! - OK don't tell him but I might let Keithy search our poo, if he's a good boy, when it gets delivered later!




Poor Rick though he got 'stuck' in the field as the trailor was so heavily laden (greedy???) that he couldn't get up to the top of the field to freedom, he made some lovely skid marks!!! eventually I said I will get some help, so beckoned my French neighbours over, and with a lot of talking (cursing) and shoving and lifting, the 7 of us got it to the top of the hill and back onto the road, must remember to get them a bottle of Ricard to share next time to say thank you! Luckily Rick had cut the hedge for me before this fiasco, and it is a long hedge I can tell you, he cut lots of the brambles down, as they are really getting out of hand, whilst Karen and I were madly digging the veggie patch ready for the poo, in this pic you can see Karen lending a hand at digging, but she was too shy to show her face, you wait Karen I will catch you unaware!


We also managed to do a spot of sunbathing whilst eating lunch, was so warm, then a bit of painting of the end gite inside and out. Right my next update on my gardening here will be when I re-visit on Thursday next - so watch this space again!